"If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."
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"In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through."
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"My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify."
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"One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints."
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"The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments."
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"I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side."
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"I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency]."
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"I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks."
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"We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy."
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"We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it."
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"We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back."
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"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."
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"It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be."
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"I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it."
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"I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium."
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"Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression."
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"I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism."
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"Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself."
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"For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t."
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"Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do.""
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